Tuesday, April 29, 2014

"If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a meeting Friday.

Way to go, Lurch. You have just provided potent propaganda fuel to an estimated 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, who already hate the Israel and their only ally, the United States. Al Qaeda will be quoting you in their recruiting drives for the next twenty years.

This is an outrage. This insulting language is a direct slap across the face of the Israelis, coming on the eve of Yom HaShoah, the memorial day commemorating the Holocaust.

I have been to Israel several times and I am here to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth. I have visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem - site of Solomon's Temple - on a Friday. The place was full of Arabs attending Friday prayers at the al Aqsa Mosque; as far as I know I was the only non-Muslim up there. It is forbidden by Israeli law for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount - a law that is enforced by Israeli policemen.

Highway signs in Israel are in Hebrew, Arabic and English. This is not the case in the Palestinian Territories, I can assure you.

While I was in Israel I saw a car with green license plates, and asked my Israeli host, "What is this? All the Israeli license plates are blue."

"That car belongs to a Palestinian."

"Oh? You mean there is a separation? Two classes of citizens?"

"No. This means that individual chooses to be separate."

I was then taken to the Knesset - the Israeli parliament - where Arab members of the Knesset were pointed out to me. "Those Arabs choose to be Israeli citizens. It is a free society."

Members of the Knesset Ahmed Tibi, left, Hanna Swaid, middle, and Jamal Zahalka, right during a hearing, Jerusalem, July 20, 2011 Photo by Emil Salman

MK Hanin Zoabi of the Arab Balad party seen during a plenum session in the Knesset on April 29, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Please name for me, Mr. Kerry, a single Arab country that has Jews sitting in it's parliament.

I'm going to let the above anti-Semitic comment remain in place for 24 hours, just to let everybody see real racism regarding the State of Israel - along the lines of what John Kerry said. Then I am going to take it down - you can get your own soapbox, pig. Consider for a minute the implications of what you are saying: if the Arabs put down their weapons, there would be peace in the Middle East. If the Israelis put down their weapons, there would be no more Israel.

The right of self defense vs. the right of...what is the latest arab demand these days, anyway? I can't keep up! Oh, by the way, the SecState may not believe in Israel's right to exist, but Intel does! http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-News/Intel-to-invest-6-billion-in-Kiryat-Gat-facility-350927